From owner-cvs-all Sat Oct 12 6: 1:32 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E12237B401; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 06:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB6143EB3; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 06:01:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA26842; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 23:01:27 +1000 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 23:11:43 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Dima Dorfman Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc In-Reply-To: <200210120721.g9C7LJgs083349@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20021012225619.K16856-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Dima Dorfman wrote: > dd 2002/10/12 00:21:19 PDT > > Modified files: > etc rc > Log: > Aesthetics: Most (all?) other messages output at boot time have > trailing periods, so why shouldn't this one? > > Revision Changes Path > 1.322 +1 -1 src/etc/rc Um, most don't. Most are output by device drivers. It is usually a style bug for kernel messages to have a trailing period, and this bug is missing in most devices drivers. About half of the messages in /etc/rc follow similar rules. The exceptions are mostly to terminate lists (echo '.'). The rules seem to be that error messages are not normally terminated (note that ones printed by err() are never terminated), and that multi-sentence paragraphs should be fully punctuated (terminating the sentences is necessary for all except the last one in a paragraph, and not terminating the last one looks strange). Terminating lists is a bit like terminating paragraphs. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message